Barnes & Noble Introduces Free NOOK® for Android™ and NOOK for iOS Reading Apps in UK03:00 EST Tuesday, November 27, 2012
LONDON (Business Wire) -- NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS),
the world's largest bookseller and leading retailer of content, digital
media and educational products, today announced its popular, free NOOK
for Android and NOOK for iPad and iPhone apps are now available for
download in the UK, giving British customers even more flexibility to
Read What You Love, Anywhere You Like™ on a multitude of
mobile devices. With free NOOK Reading Apps™, UK customers
can use an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android smartphone or tablet to
easily shop the expansive NOOK Store™ (www.nook.co.uk)
of over 2.5 million books, magazines, newspapers and comics, and access
their digital library anywhere they go.
Smart NOOK Sync™ technology means that customers can also
automatically sync their entire library on the go, including last page
read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across all of their devices. Start
a book on a NOOK tablet or eReader and seamlessly pick back up on an
iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Android smartphone or tablet to keep reading
anytime, anywhere – all without losing the page.
“Following the successful launch of our award-winning NOOK line in the
UK, we're delighted to introduce our free NOOK Reading Apps that
seamlessly bring millions of digital titles to the fingertips of
customers who use Android and iOS devices, and to put our unmatched
digital reading experience into the hands of even more Brits,” said
Jamie Iannone, President of NOOK Media LLC. “Our popular collection of
reading apps have been downloaded millions of times in the US, and now
UK customers can enjoy the flexibility to shop our vast digital
catalogue and enjoy titles from their NOOK Library anywhere they go,
whether they're using one of our award-winning NOOK products, an iPad,
iPhone or Android device.”
Combining a fully integrated shop with NOOK's award-winning digital
reading experience, customers can browse one of the world's largest
digital bookstores featuring new releases, bestsellers, classics, and a
large collection from independent publishers and self-publishing authors
through NOOK's PubIt!™ programme. UK customers can enjoy a
free sample of NOOK Books™, and purchase and download titles
in seconds to begin reading instantly. NOOK for Android and NOOK for iOS
also offer access to the highly acclaimed NOOK Newsstand™, so
customers can try digital periodicals for free for 14 days and enjoy a
large and growing selection of popular newspapers and magazines by
subscription or single copy purchases.
Barnes & Noble's adoption of open standards like EPUB format and its
Adobe® technology partnership allows customers to enjoy their
NOOK content on a wide variety of devices and platforms. Purchased
content is always safe and secure through the free NOOK Cloud™,
making it easy for UK customers to access digital books, magazines and
newspapers from their NOOK devices, tablets and smartphones for reading
on the go.
Featuring NOOK's award-winning digital reading platform perfectly
optimised for iOS and Android devices, customers can personalise their
reading experience by selecting from a variety of supported languages,
professionally designed or customised themes and multiple font types and
sizes. While reading a book, seamlessly search, add notes, highlights
and bookmarks, look up words using the in-built British English
dictionary and more. Pinch and zoom to navigate and explore even the
tiniest details of popular NOOK Magazines™ and use innovative
ArticleView™ to focus only on the text, and get closer to
favorite superheroes and characters in NOOK Comics™ with Zoom
View™, which puts the focus on individual panels for an even
more immersive digital comics experience.
NOOK has recently launched a range of devices in the UK, including NOOK®
HD, the ultra-light and highest-resolution 7-inch HD tablet, NOOK®
HD+, the lightest and lowest priced full HD tablet, as well as the
highly-acclaimed NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight E Ink®
eReaders. The perfect companion to NOOK devices, free NOOK
Reading Apps will give even more Brits, who already own an iOS or
Android-based tablet or smartphone access to one of the world's largest
digital bookstores. As part of the introduction of the free reading apps
to the UK, Barnes & Noble gives new NOOK for Android and NOOK for iOS
customers access to free books to begin their NOOK reading experience,
and free trial subscriptions to magazines and newspapers.
More information and access to download free NOOK for Android and NOOK
for iOS apps is available at http://uk.nook.com/nook-mobile-apps.
Customers can also find and download NOOK for Android from the Google
Play Store and NOOK for iOS in the Apple App Store.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 689 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of
digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™
(www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 667 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associated 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK
Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.
Follow Barnes & Noble on Twitter (www.bn.com/twitter),
Facebook (www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble)
and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/barnesandnoble).
About NOOK Media LLC
NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million digital
books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the
ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through
free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble's
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading
retailers.
For more information on NOOK, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN
or www.twitter.com/nook_UK
and www.facebook.com/nook.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.Corporate CommunicationsMary Ellen
Keating, 212-633-3323mkeating@bn.comorBarnes
& Noble, Inc.Carolyn J. Brown, 212-633-4062Corporate
Communicationscbrown@bn.comorUK
PR ContactFleishman-Hillard, IncChevi Davis, 020 7395-7058chevi.davis@fleishmaneurope.com

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